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It only let's me update the title ;(

The link should be https://booksearch.party/blog/hobby-project-vs-llm-scrapers....

Please help me update this to the correct link https://booksearch.party/blog/hobby-project-vs-llm-scrapers....

Posted the wrong link on my previous post...

Damn I posted the wrong link

Custom development (contracting) your already guarantee the sale since they are paying you for what you already want so in that case I guess you could perfect your craft. On the op…

hmmm, sounds similar to myself at times. I think for me its an obsession with perfection. Hard to keep a balance between that and the pressure from non technical people to "Just sh…

I updated the email to be optional, I was hoping to get emails just for follow up questions.

I think both of those stories are interesting. For the low trust issue, I think it is becoming more clear with the rise of blatantly fake content online. I think a good lesson coul…

... Perhaps I am just not getting enough traffic yet for it to work. I had signed up for Amazon affiliates but they closed my account due to lack to sales.

I built a free audiobook search engine a couple of months back to scratch my own itch. It has been one of my most successful side projects to date. I got around 9k unique visitors …

I've been finding some great books from Librivox. They have a great copy of Crime and Punishment https://booksearch.party/books/Crime_and_Punishment.html

Recent occurrences... have brought to my attention that I should have security cameras setup. I wanted to solve two problems: make use of what I currently had, two old android phon…

I just updated the UI so its more mobile friendly. The row is now click able so it opens up a model with a more detailed view

That's a good idea, it would likely help filter my voice preference. Some of the audio recording are more difficult to listen to than others.

The lit2go and librivox audio sources should all be human. The project Gutenberg are all AI generated.

I am going to look into building out a more extensive filtering system where you could combine filters. Trying to decide on a balance of complexity and ease of use. My personal use…

The ratings are for the books not the audio recording. Unfortunately there is no data points for the rating of the audio, since the sources don't collect rating. I could add a feat…

Definitely! In this iteration, my focus was on functionality to get the data out there. I can improve the UI to make the filtering system sleeker and more mobile-friendly. Addition…

That's a good point; this definitely needs improvement. I'm planning to refine my data collection and matching process. Right now, I'm using string matching to build the tables, wh…

I noticed that many websites offering free audiobooks tend to have clunky search functionality, making it harder to find what you're looking for. To address this, I’ve created a si…